"She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats plowed the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed."

-- Elizabeth Strout

#Moving Quotes #Water Quotes #Plowing Quotes

“You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.”
“Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life youve led.”
“I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'”
“If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.”
“Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway”
“You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?”
“This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.”
“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.”

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